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The solstice is also a high seasonal tide. Just as there are high daily and monthly tides, so the solstice is a high season tide for the north and south hemispheres. Among others, this has some interesting effects both 3D and multi-D. The time approaching a high seasonal tide, has similar effects to a full or new moon. Moisture levels, biorhythms and energy levels rise. At the actual time of the solstice, this is a transitional point, going from high to low energy and thereby has a tendency to create erratic emotions or responses. It is a time of chaos. After the solstice, energies go down or inward. According to Mr. Steiner, it is the most active time of nature; energies go into the soil for rebuilding and restructuring. Plant roots and microbial activity seem to proliferate. It is a time the people may feel the need to sleep more, bodies repair, root vegetables and stews taste good, and it is a time for pulling out spiritual books, anthroposophic literature, poetry, and dreaming. It is also a nice time for seminars and learning. Planets, moons and other astronomic bodies groups of bodies form gravitational lenses. This is a little more multi-D or etheric, but these focus and channel different spiritual and etherial energies, karma, cosmic and telluric influences. TJH Allan Balliett wrote: from organic farm inspector Troy Brogdan The precise moment of the 2001 solstice will be December 21, 2001 at 2:22 p.m. EST (19:22 UT). RELATED LINKS <http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0874485.html>Phenomena, 2001 <http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0770362.html>Seasons of the Northern Hemisphere <http://www.skyandtelescope.com/>Sky and Telescope <http://www.usno.navy.mil/>U.S. Naval Observatory In astronomy, the <http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0775251.html>solstice is either of the two times a year when the Sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator, the great circle on the celestial sphere that is on the same plane as the earth's equator. In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs either December 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn; the summer solstice occurs either June 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Cancer. In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter and summer solstices are reversed. Reason for the Seasons The reason for the different seasons at opposite times of the year in the two hemispheres is that while the earth rotates about the sun, it also spins on its axis, which is tilted some 23.5 degrees towards the plane of its rotation. Because of this tilt, the Northern Hemisphere receives less direct sunlight (creating winter) while the Southern Hemisphere receives more direct sunlight (creating summer). As the Earth continues its orbit the hemisphere that is angled closest to the sun changes and the seasons are reversed. Longest Night of the Year The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The sun appears at its lowest point in the sky, and its noontime elevation appears to be the same for several days before and after the solstice. Hence the origin of the word solstice, which comes from Latin solstitium, from sol, "sun" and -stitium, "a stoppage." Following the winter solstice, the days begin to grow longer and the nights shorter. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com
